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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
Referring to the classification system in use by the biological sciences today to classify all living things. It lumps organisms together based on presumed homologies. The assumption is that the more homologies two organisms share, the closer they must be in terms of evolutionary distance. The higher, more inclusive divisions of the Linnaean system are created by including together closely related clusters of the immediately lower divisions. The result is a hierarchical system of classification with the highest category consisting of all living things. The lowest category consists of a single species. Each of the categories above species can have numerous subcategories. The Linnaean system was invented by Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th century.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to the ability to manipulate objects with the hands.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to techniques for chronometric dating based on known half-lives of particular isotopes or the rate of other cumulative changes in atoms resulting from radioactivity. Examples include electron spin resonance, fission track, potassium-argon, radiocarbon, and thermoluminescence dating.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to sources of food and the way they are obtained (e.g., scavenging, hunting, and farming). Subsistence base is another name for subsistence pattern. "Subsistence strategy" refers to decisions made by people as to the best way to obtain food in a particular environment (e.g., diversified foraging, specialized big game hunting, etc. ).
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to objects that are large enough to be seen easily with the naked eye.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to climatic regions that are next to the arctic circle (e.g., Northern Alaska and Northern Canada) and that have extremely long cold winters with a great deal of snow and little or no day light. Subarctic regions are farther north than temperate ones in the northern hemisphere.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to climatic regions in between tropical and temperate zones. Subtropical areas rarely have winter snow and are warm enough to grow oranges and avocados.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to climatic regions between subtropical and subarctic zones. Temperate areas usually have winter snow and are too cold to grow oranges and avocados. However, summer temperatures can be warm.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to body parts that are remnants of parts that were more fully developed and functional in an earlier stage of evolution in the species.
Industry:Anthropology
Referring to animals that spend much of their day on the ground but usually return to the trees to sleep. See arboreal and terrestrial.
Industry:Anthropology
